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Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is known to his blue-collar British mates as Billy Liar because of his vivid imagination. This film version of the Keith Waterhouse-Willis Hall stage play "visualizes" some of Billy's more outrageous fabrications. He periodically escapes the drudgery of his job at a funeral parlor by conjuring up impossible adventures, usually involving the conquest of women. In one of her first film roles, Julie Christie plays one of two "real" girls who wish that Billy would come
Unrated, 1 hr. 34 min.
Jan 1, 1963 Wide
Jan 1, 1998
Continental
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (0) | DVD (11)
One of the great movies of the 1960's.
A key work of the New British Cinema, Billy Liar features the impressive debut of director John Schlesinger and his first teaming with Julie Christie (before Darling).
Even though it's a seminal movie of the sixties, it never reached me emotionally.
... this portrait of ambition aching to break out of suffocating conformity and social expectation is viewed through the prism of fantasy and puckish humor...
Brill.
a unique work in the British New Cinema movement
Billy Liar!" impressed me more than many other admirable British pictures of this era, like "Room at the Top", "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and "This Sporting Life". It managed to generate a more tangible blend of poignancy and amusement. It's not often humour of the "laugh-out-loud" nature, more of the
February 10, 2011Super Reviewer
I wasn't very impressed with this movie or any of the cast really, it wasn't very funny or enjoyable, but once in a while it has a funny moment, so it's an okay movie.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
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